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Help: Middle-aged surf journalist attempts to understand modern, mostly male and cryptic, hand gestures a decade after they should have crested!

But what does the OK and devil horn admixture mean?

Legitimately, I have been struggling with folk, especially male folk, holding their handsies up and doing fingering things for the camera for years and years and years. Maybe even a decade. The ironic shaka I understand (see here) but pointers, peace signs, love fingers, sideways peace signs, kinked out OKs feat. devil horns?

Why do the youth do when a cellular phone camera is brought out? What in the world is being thought when doing?

Let us examine the above photograph, maybe not from cellular phone, featuring surfing champion-adjacent Kanoa Igarashi and Formula One star Yuki Tsunoda doing the stuff.

Igarashi is throwing some OK and devil horn admixture. Does it mean anything? Tsunoda is going more standard two fingers pointing at Igarashi but a little weird and crooked. What does that mean?

Why do the youth do?

Legitimately.

I feel we help each other understand the wild times in which we live.

Help me help you.

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Ontime

Poor lost souls don’t know a Slayer sign when it’s thrown up. What’s the world coming to.

Party Pete

You don’t know how far from my reality that little drive is.

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt

Is Igarshi wearing eyeliner??

Tomas' silky smooth arms

You can go lower than this, Chas.

disqus_00d1gIXedO

Just go with the shocker: two in the pink and one in the stink. Suppress the ring finger to achieve

Sean Connery

One is a Japanese A ok sign. The other a Japanese peace sign. All very positive.

ptsdsurfer

Let’s anal lyse this. Ok + devil. Is he inferring that it’s Ok to be devilish? Deviant? I.e. to fuck another man in the arse?

channelbottom

The marvellous thing that I most love about hand gestures is that no matter how friendly they might be in your own sphere of influence, there’s always another culture on the other side of the world where the same gesture is wildly and hideously offensive.

notsurfingtoday

They could throw down yakuza gang signs, but those don’t generally involve any fingers

Beef & Beer

…”get ya hand off it Darryl”…

Uneducated

Here’s a hand gesture for you iceman chas https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

The only one we really need to understand

Audit In Progress

That’s where I learned the gesture. Ran around school for weeks imitating Maverick.

NEGATRON

No sign of a girlfriend… thought he might’ve had a 6’2′ supermodel. I like him more now.

AI (for ever) .

Fuck I’m glad we won the war.

Imagine those two as your masters

PRN

Still feel bad for Rabbit being touched by Elo yesterday. Rabbits a good bloke.

Manuka

Elo into senior grooming?

Howling Jack

more importantly , should we be emulating F1 if they are ögoing to wear fucking outfits like that to the beach

AI (for ever) .

I’m thinking Elo has been told to find a new plan that works or else……

NEGATRON

Why do I now need to google Yuki Tsunoda’s girlfriend. Is this the middle aged version of a hand signal?

velobwoy

Kanoa is Illuminati-adjacent.

velobwoy

Don Kanoaminati

Barrelled

It’s quite possible this article sets a standard for the low bar. Good on ya Chas.

Andy Aames

Kanoa is the cringiest person to ever exist

Stick man

It appears as if he’s wearing eye-liner…

Andy Aames

Lol, totally

Party Pete

Modern blue steel pisstake for a few laughs or cultural appropriation of how Asian girls pose for photographs? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

Chief Hot stuff

First class chick’s
Whites inferior in every way

Party Pete

Here we go.


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